Re: autoconf / automake

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@gmail.com> writes:
>> autotools are only portable amongst systems which have GNU-Tools available.
>
> GNU's not Unix. Autotools works on all Unix. Autotools works where a ksh is
> available.

It doesn't even depend on ksh, but rather should work with any
reasonably bourne-like shell, and really tries (modulo bugs) to avoid
depending on anything but lowest-common-(amongst unix-like
systems)-denominator tool behavior.

-Miles

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